Role

Gabriele teaches Italian on the University Language Programme, teaching from beginner to advanced.

Career overview

Prior to his appointment at NTU, Gabriele worked for many years in business as a sole trader and in retail.

Research areas

Gabriele’s research focuses on parts of Switzerland, Slovenia, Croatia and Montenegro. In 2017 he gained his PhD in cultural studies at NTU. His research falls into diverse and complementary areas of interest such as literature written in Italian by Swiss, Slovenian, Croatian, and Montenegrin authors, history, heritage studies, symbols, food and wine cultures, and architecture.

External activity

In 2017 Gabriele gave a series of public lectures about “AlterItà” in Bellinzona and Brusio, Switzerland.

Since 2010 Gabriele has given interviews to radio and TV stations in Slovenia (Radio Capodistria in 2018), Switzerland (RSI Rete Uno in 2010, 2013, and 2017, RSI La Uno in 2014), Italy (Radio Meneghina in 2011 and 2012) and Montenegro (Skala Radio in 2010). Additionally, he has broadcast and recorded two live radio programmes about Swiss writers in 2011 and 2012 (Radio Meneghina).

2017 (book chapter) Gabriele Paleari (2017), Memory, Italianness, and borders in Istria in the literary work of Roberta Dubac. In Maja Mikula (ed.), Remembering Home in a Time of Mobility. Memory, Nostalgia and Melancholy. Cambridge Scholars: Newcastle Upon Tyne, pp. 35-52.